Richard Lawrence Jordan Syracuse University Press $39.95 ISBN 9780815633136 Reviewed by Brian Kennaway In The second coming of Paisley, the American historian Richard Lawrence Jordan claims to provide us with […]

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Alvin Jackson (ed.), The Oxford handbook of modern Irish history (Oxford University Press, £95 hb, 800pp, ISBN9780199549344) Maynooth Studies in Local History (Four Courts Press, ?9.95 pb) John R. Thullier, […]

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